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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Martinez <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Documentation and explanatory diagrams
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:29:42 -0400
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Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of vie jul 09 20:01:55 -0400 2010:

> Where are we on this?  Application?  dia? xfig?  Number of colors?  Once
> we decide these items, we can start adding diagrams.

I think the first step is defining the source format.  The proposed
patch uses the dia XML source format, but this is said to have some
drawbacks (namely: the source is too verbose, the generated png is too
bloated, and only one tool to handle it).  SVG was also proposed as an
alternative, but there wasn't much discussion about it.  And finally we
have xfig.

So what is it?

Maybe we could have diagrams generated by different tools; e.g. we could
use GraphViz for some things.

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